A computational method for geometric optimization of enhanced heat transfer devices based upon entropy generation minimization

A computational fluid dynamics‐based optimization methodology is developed, appropriate for the geometric optimization of enhanced heat transfer devices based upon the principle of entropy generation minimization, in which the objective function is evaluated from a flow field obtained by computational simulation. A quasi‐Newton optimization procedure is employed, with computation of the objective function gradients based upon a finite difference approach. The optimization procedure is developed to be general with regard to the choice of objective function, the details of the problem under consideration, and the computational methodology employed in solving the fluid flow and heat transfer problems. A novel implementation of a Taylor series‐based procedure for the fast solution of nearby problems is presented, which is found to greatly benefit the efficiency of the present methodology. Finally, a numerical experiment is presented, illustrating the use of the present method in the geometric optimization of a practical enhanced heat transfer device on the basis of the criterion of entropy generation minimization. The optimization of the fin spacing of a simple plate fin heat sink is considered, and a comparison of the computational results with results obtained by analytical optimization based upon empirical friction factor and Nusselt number correlations is given. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Convection and heat/mass transfer processes under space flight conditions

A simulation of 3D convective flows and heat/mass transfer processes under space flight conditions on the basis of hydrodynamic models and a numerical analysis of these models is discussed. The significance of the methods of mechanics in microgravity sciences and the role of the journal “Fluid Dynamics” in the development of this branch of science is examined. The results of recent investigations of certain problems are presented.     

Volumetric methods for evaluating energy loss and heat transfer in cavity flows

Methods have been developed for calculating irreversible energy losses and rates of heat transfer from computational fluid dynamics solutions using volume integrations of energy dissipation or entropy production functions. These methods contrast with the more usual approach of performing first law energy balances over the boundaries of a flow domain. Advantages of the volumetric approach are that the estimates involve the whole flow domain and are hence based on more information than would otherwise be used, and that the energy dissipation or entropy production functions allow for detailed assessment of the mechanisms and regions of energy loss or entropy production. Volume integrations are applied to the calculation of viscous losses in a lid‐driven cavity flow, and to the viscous losses and heat transfer due to natural convection in a side‐heated cavity. In the convection problem comparison with the entropy increase across a stationary heat conducting layer leads to a novel volume integral expression for the Nusselt number. The predictions using this method compare well with traditional surface integrals and benchmark results. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Quasi-linear heat and mass transfer

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion - From the assumption that the heat flux (mass flux with respect to the mass-average velocity) vector is an isotropic function of the temperature (mass-fraction)...     

Finite element solution of heat and mass transfer flow with Hall current, heat source, and viscous dissipation

The aim of the paper is to investigate the effect of heat and mass transfer on the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic free convective flow with Hall current, heat source, and viscous dissipation. The problem is governed by the system of coupled non-linear partial differential equations whose exact solution is difficult to obtain. Therefore, the problem is solved by using the Galerkin finite element method. The effects of the various parameters like Hall current, Eckert number, heat source parameter, Prandtl number, and Schmidt number on the velocity components, the temperature, and the concentration are also examined through graphs.     

Investigation of hydrodynamic and heat and mass transfer processes for crystal growing by the Czochralski method

A mathematical model and numerical method are developed and used to investigate nonstationary flow and heat and mass transfer regimes in a melt appropriate to the conditions of Czochralski crystal growth. A study is made of the separate and combined influence of rotation and thermal, concentration, and thermocapillary convection on the distribution of the temperature and the dopant in the range of regime parameters corresponding to large charging masses of the melt with small value of the kinematic viscosity. Large-scale fluctuations are found to occur when rotation and thermal convection interact. Thermocapillary convection is shown to have an important influence on the resulting motion when it interacts with the thermal and concentration forms of convection. A comparison is made with the results of experimental and theoretical investigations of other authors.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 55–65, January–February, 1981.     

Transient heat and mass transfer and long-term stability of a salt-gradient solar pond

In this work, the problem of transient heat and mass transfer and long-term stability of a SGSP has been numerically investigated using a 2D-transient-variable properties model and a finite-control-volume numerical method. The pond, which was assumed initially stabilized with linear temperature and salinity profiles, has been subject to real weather conditions. The numerical model has been satisfactorily validated against measured temperature data. Numerical results have clearly shown that the solar heating effect appears considerably more pronounced during the hot seasons (spring and summer) than during the cold ones (winter and autumn). The existence of two critical zones, one beneath the water surface and the other one located near the pond bottom, has clearly been established at a very early time of operation. It has been found that such critical zones have progressively become more vulnerable in time. Also, the solar heating effect, the heat losses through the free surface as well as the water transparency have an important influence on the pond stability characteristics and its temporal evolution. The presence of a heat extraction with its cooling effect tends to stabilize the pond. Such a beneficial effect, which is mainly observed in the bottom region of the pond, has been found to be more pronounced during the summer than during the winter time. Results have also shown that the pond with good transparency water would likely be more susceptible to develop instabilities than the one with poorer transparency water. Such an effect appears to be more important inside the lower critical zone.     

涡轮冷却叶片气动与传热设计优化

提出了航空发动机涡轮冷却叶片叶栅气动与传热自动优化方法,利用函数解析成型方法实现了冷却叶片几何模型的参数化与自动生成,可以建立任意冷却内腔数量的叶片模型;基于N-S方程实现叶片流体域与固体域的流-热耦合分析;采用KS函数方法将多目标优化问题转化为单目标函数进行优化,以总压损失、叶片最高温度和平均温度最小为优化目标进行了自动优化,改善了叶片性能。     

On the direct interactions between heat transfer,mass transport and chemical processes within gradient elasticity

The behaviour of complex material systems often results from the combined effects of several multi-scale mechanisms and simultaneously occurring coupled physical processes. In this paper, we focus on such complex response of a class of geomaterials in which heat conduction, mass diffusion, chemical reactions and gradient-type elastic strain mechanisms interact. Our purpose is to develop within a formal thermodynamic framework a complete set of constitutive equations which account for most of the possible aforementioned direct couplings and the associated relevant size effects in a unified phenomenological way. For the sake of simplicity, the volume element is described at the macroscopic scale as a classical homogeneous continuous mixture of chemically active species. Based on theories of second-gradient elasticity endowed with the concepts of both nonlocality residual and constitutive insulation condition, a thermo-diffuso-chemo-elastic formulation is proposed in the restricted case of small perturbations. Coupling terms entering the relevant constitutive relations are discussed throughout the paper. Then, the model is applied to a simple one-dimensional situation, in which only the mechanical response is reported. The implementation of such modelling in a finite element code should enable us to address more specific problems, such as the stress solution phenomenon in hollow cylinders subjected to external loading.     

Three-dimensional numerical analysis of heat and mass transfer in heat pipes

A three-dimensional finite-element numerical model is presented for simulation of the steady-state performance characteristics of heat pipes. The mass, momentum and energy conservation equations are solved for the liquid and vapor flow in the entire heat pipe domain. The calculated outer wall temperature profiles are in good agreement with the experimental data. The estimations of the liquid and vapor pressure distributions and velocity profiles are also presented and discussed. It is shown that the vapor flow field remains nearly symmetrical about the heat pipe centerline, even under a non-uniform heat load. The analytical method used to predict the heat pipe capillary limit is found to be conservative.     

Modeling of simultaneous heat and mass transfer processes in ammonia–water absorption systems from general correlations

This paper presents a general differential mathematical model to analyze the simultaneous heat and mass transfer processes that occur in different components of an ammonia–water absorption system: absorber, desorber, rectifier, distillation column, condenser and evaporator. Heat and mass transfer equations are considered, taking into account the heat and mass transfer resistances in the liquid and vapour phases. The model considers the different regions: vapour phase, liquid phase and an external heating or cooling medium. A finite difference numerical method has been considered to solve the resulting set of nonlinear differential equations and an iterative algorithm is proposed for its solution. A map of possible solutions of the mass transferred composition z is presented when varying the interface temperature, which enables to establish a robust implementation code. The analysis is focused on the processes presented in ammonia–water absorption systems. The model is applied to analyze the ammonia purification process in an adiabatic packed rectification column and the numerical results show good agreement with experimental data.     

Convection heat and mass transfer from a disk

The aim of the present study is to investigate the coupling influence of the disk rotating speed and air velocity from laboratory room on the local heat and mass characteristics from a disk in wind tunnel with the naphthalene sublimation technique. The experiments are performed at four different free stream flow velocities. From the experimental results, the correlation of Sherwood number with the coupling Reynolds number and of Nusselt number with the coupling Reynolds number are both proposed in the present work.     

Multiscale aspects of heat and mass transfer during drying

The macroscopic formulation of coupled heat and mass transfer has been widely used during the past two decades to model and simulate the drying of one single piece of product, including the case of internal vaporization. However, more often than expected, the macroscopic approach fails and several scales have to be considered at the same time. This paper is devoted to multiscale approaches to transfer in porous media, with particular attention to drying. The change of scale, namely homogenization, is presented first and used as a generic approach able to supply parameter values to the macroscopic formulation. The need for a real multiscale approach is then exemplified by some experimental observations. Such an approach is required as soon as thermodynamic equilibrium is not ensured at the microscopic scale. A stepwise presentation is proposed to formulate such situations.     

Numerical investigation of heat and mass transfer processes accompanying crystallization under conditions when body forces produce weak accelerations

A numerical investigation has been made into the development of the flow of a liquid and distribution of an dopant during crystallization under conditions when weak body forces act. It is shown that the development and structure of the flow, and also the distribution of the dopant over the height of the liquid volume and along the radius near the crystallization boundary are influenced by the thermal boundary conditions and the wettability of the ampoule wall by the liquid. The mean (over the height of the ampoule) radial inhomogeneity of the dopant distribution is found as a function of the time and the regime parameters (the Grashof, Marangoni, and Schmidt numbers).Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 186–192, January–February, 1981.     

Functional solutions for problems of heat and mass transfer

Meccanica - We prove the existence and, in certain cases, the uniqueness of functional solutions for boundary value problems of systems of P.D.E. in divergence form with constant boundary...     

Heat and mass transfer characteristics of organic sorbent coated on heat transfer surface of a heat exchanger

This paper describes heat and mass transfer characteristics of organic sorbent coated on heat transfer surface of a fin-tube heat exchanger. The experiments in which the moist air was passed into the heat exchanger coated with sorption material were conducted under various conditions of air flow rate (0.5–1.0 m/s) and the temperature of brine (14–20°C) that was the heat transfer fluid to cool the air flow in the dehumidifying process. It is found that the sorption rate of vapor is affected by the air flow rate and the brine temperature. Meanwhile, the attempt of clarifying the sorption mechanism is also conducted. Finally the average mass transfer coefficient of the organic sorbent coated on heat transfer surface of a fin-tube heat exchanger is non-dimensionalzed as a function of Reynolds number and non-dimensional temperature, and it is found that the effect of non-dimensional temperature on them is larger than Reynolds number .     

Modeling of heat and mass transfer in lateritic building envelopes

The aim of the present work is to investigate the behavior of building envelopes made of local lateritic soil bricks subjected to different climatic conditions. The building envelopes studied in this work consist of lateritic soil bricks with incorporation of natural pozzolan or sawdust in order to obtain small thermal conductivity and low-density materials. In order to describe coupled heat and moisture transfer in wet porous materials, the coupled equations were solved by the introduction of diffusion coefficients. A numerical model HMtrans, developed for prediction of heat and moisture transfer in multi-layered building components, was used to simulate the temperature, water content and relative humidity profiles within the building envelopes. The results allow the prediction of the duration of the exposed building walls to the local weather conditions. They show that the durability of building envelopes made of lateritic soil bricks with incorporation of natural pozzolan or sawdust is not strongly affected by the climatic conditions in tropical and equatorial areas.